Sell Art Online
Join Instaprints and start selling your art online today!
Welcome to one of the largest, fastest-growing art communities in the world. Instaprints is the premier online marketplace for buying and selling fine art originals and fine art prints. It's also the easiest way to network with other artists and stay in touch with your local art scene! Our interactive website is designed to bring together artists, art galleries, and fine art collectors by providing power online tools to all three groups.
I am a visual artist / photographer who is interested in creating an online portfolio, selling prints and greeting cards, advertising my upcoming appearances and events, posting press releases, networking with other members, and more!
I am the owner or employee of an art gallery and am interested in selling artwork from our gallery, advertising our business in the gallery directory, advertising our upcoming events, posting press releases, networking with other members, and more!
Professional Online Selling Tools
for Professional and Up-and-Coming Visual Artists
Create a beautifully designed profile page featuring your biography, contact information, artwork, blog, upcoming events, press releases, and more!
Upload your digital photos and instantly create beautiful artwork pages which are meticulously designed to encourage sales and attract high search engine rankings. FAA members can sell prints AND originals - 100% commission free!
Sell prints of your artwork on paper or stretched canvas with thousands of frame and mat combinations. Simply upload your images, set your print prices, and start selling!
Create and Send Graphical E-Mails
Create HTML e-mails in seconds, send the e-mails to everyone on your e-mail list, and then track to see who opens the e-mails! Each e-mail can be customized to include your headshot, samples of your artwork, images from other websites, and more!
Advertise your upcoming events and press releases in our weekly newsletter. Instaprints has developed a unique algorithm which allows the newsletter to automatically detect the location of the e-mail recipient and then instantly tailor the content of the newsletter to that location (e.g. Chicago).
Sell from Your Existing Website
Embed our shopping cart system into your own website and sell prints directly from your site! This allows you to keep your visitors focused on YOUR artwork on YOUR website!
Create a custom shopping page which features only your artwork. You can adjust the font colors, font sizes, menu colors, background colors, image sizes, and much more!
Allow visitors to view full-resolution previews of your artwork in order to help them make buying decisions. Instaprints's unique preview algorithm allows visitors to see the finest details of your images while still protecting the original files from theft.
Have you been in the news recently? Post your press releases on Instaprints for increased exposure and automatic inclusion in our weekly newsletter.
Chat live with other members or discuss art-related topics in the FAA discussion section.
Share marketing and sales strategies with the fastest-growing network of artists, art galleries, and fine art collectors!
Promote Your Artwork on FaceBook
Use the Instaprints FaceBook application to automatically post announcements on your FaceBook wall each time you upload artwork to FAA!
With a few simple clicks, you can add a full-featured FAA shopping cart directly to your personal page and/or fan page. Your Facebook friends and fans can then browse through your entire portfolio without ever leaving Facebook!
Sign up for a premium account, and you get your very own website which you can use to sell prints of your artwork. The power of this feature is enormous. You get the full power of FineArtAmerica.com dedicated specifically to you and your artwork.
Create Your Own Ordering Catalog
Have you ever been at an art fair and wished that you could hand an ordering catalog to a prospective buyer? Something that shows all of your available artwork, sizes, prices, and ordering information... now you can!
Have you ever wanted to license your artwork for use on television?
Instaprints has been selected to provide artwork for ABC's television series, Desperate Housewives, as part of a pilot program that's going to revolutionize the way that artwork is licensed for use on television.
Membership Plans
Standard vs. Premium
Standard Accounts: FREE
Most of the features listed in the table, below, are available free of charge to artists and galleries of FineArtAmerica.com! If you are interested in opening a free account, simply click the appropriate link, above.
Premium Accounts: $30 / Year
In addition, Instaprints offers a set of premium features (see chart, below) which are designed to give you greater exposure and sales opportunities.
In order to sign up for a premium account, start by opening a free account, above. Once your account is activated, login to your account and follow the on-screen instructions to enter your credit card information and activate the premium account features. It's that easy!
Features
Feature Descriptions
Free Membership
Premium ($30 / Year)
Each member receives a unique webpage which may be customized with artwork, biography information, gallery information, upcoming events, fine art blogs, and more:
Webpage Format
firstname-lastname.fineartamerica.com
(artists)
galleryname.fineartamerica.com
(galleries)
Webpage Samples
barbara-keith.fineartamerica.com
(artists)
sample-gallery.fineartamerica.com
(galleries)
Member pages are real .html pages which have been meticulously designed for high search-engine rankings.
Upload your digital photos and instantly create beautiful artwork pages which are meticulously designed to encourage sales and attract high search engine rankings.
There is no limit on the number of images that you may upload!
Images may be any pixel size (e.g. 1600 x 1200). If you will be participating in our print-on-demand program, you are encouraged to upload larger images in order to offer the largest range of print sizes. We currently accept images in the following formats: .jpg, .jpeg. Each uploaded image must be 20 MB or less.
Yes - that's right! 100% commission free! Unlike other art sites, FineArtAmerica.com does not try to stand between artists and their buyers in order to collect commissions. If a visitor to our site is interested in purchasing one of your originals or prints, the visitor can e-mail you directly from your profile page.
If you end up completing a sale - that's great! We call this a "do-it-yourself" transaction. It is your responsibility to handle the entire transaction on your own (i.e. collecting payment, packaging, shipping, etc.), but you also get to keep all of the money!
If you would like FineArtAmerica.com to produce your prints for you and handle all aspects of your business transactions (e.g. collecting payment, printing, framing, matting, packaging, shipping, etc.), we offer a very popular print on demand service which generates thousands of dollars of income for many of our members each year!
Sell prints of your artwork on paper or stretched canvas with thousands of frame and mat combinations. Simply upload your images, set your print prices, and start selling!
When you upload an image, our system will tell you which print sizes are available based on the size of your image. The larger your image, the larger we can print! For each available print size, you get to specify how much you want to charge for that size (e.g. $50 for a 8" x 10", $75 for a 16" x 20", etc.). The prices that you specify are exactly how much you'll earn when someone buys one of your prints. Plus, you can earn even more (read next section).
When a customer decides to purchase one of your prints, we take care of everything to finalize the order, including:
1. processing credit cards via our secure shopping cart
2. printing your image on paper or canvas
3. stretching it on stretcher bars (if applicable)
4. framing it and matting it (if applicable)
5. protecting it with glazing (if applicable)
6. packaging it and shipping it!
On the 15th of each month, you receive payment from FineArtAmerica.com via check or PayPal for all of the orders that you received during the previous month.
Free accounts can upload an unlimited number of images but may only offer 25 of those images for sale as prints.
Premium accounts can offer an unlimited number of images for sale as prints.
Sell 5" x 7" greeting cards featuring your artwork. Simply upload your images, set your greeting card prices, and start selling!
When a customer decides to purchase one of your greeting cards, we take care of everything to finalize the order, including:
1. processing credit cards via our secure shopping cart
2. printing your images onto 5" x 7" greeting cards
3. printing custom messages on the inside of the cards (if applicable)
4. protecting the cards with a UV coating
5. packaging and shipping
On the 15th of each month, you receive payment from FineArtAmerica.com via check or PayPal for all of the orders that you received during the previous month.
Free accounts can upload an unlimited number of images but may only offer 25 of those images for sale as greeting cards.
Premium accounts can offer an unlimited number of images for sale as greeting cards.
When someone orders one of your prints, that someone will almost certainly select a frame, mat, or other accessory to go along with the print. You will earn a 5% commission on all accessories that are selected!
As an example, let's assume that a visitor to FineArtAmerica.com decides to purchase a 24" x 24" print of your artwork for $50 (i.e. $50 is the price that you set). Let's also assume that the visitor has selected a $100 frame and a $25 mat to go along with the print. The buyer would pay $175 for the order ($50 + $100 + $25), and your earnings on this sale would be $50 + $5 + $1.25 = $56.25. That's $50 for the print plus a 5% commission on the frame and a 5% commission on the mat. You'll also earn 5% on the price of the paper and any assembly charges (not discussed in this example for the sake of simplicity).
This is our way of thanking you for doing business with FineArtAmerica.com!
What happens when FineArtAmerica.com packages all of its best features and makes them available to you through your very own, fully-customizable website?
The domain name says it all. FineArtAmerica.com provides all of our premium members with their very own websites!
You get your very own website (your-name.artistwebsites.com) which you can use to showcase your images, sell prints with custom framing and matting, sell greeting cards, issue press releases, advertise your upcoming events, post blogs... and much more.
Your website is fully-customizable and built using the same technology that transformed FineArtAmerica.com into the world's fastest growing art site and earned the devotion of tens of thousands of artists and art collectors around the world.
If you have been wanting to purchase your own website but didn't know where to start... the wait is over. We provide you with the world's most powerful artist website at a simply unbeatable price. You can launch your website and begin selling prints of your images in less than five minutes - yes, really!
Best of all... everything that you upload to your website also gets uploaded to FineArtAmerica.com and vice versa. Your Artist Website is not an island in an enormous sea of lonely, rarely-visited websites. It's part of the world's fastest growing online art community.
Create customized HTML e-mails which you can send to your friends, family, art colllectors, business acquaintances, and more!
What is a customizable HTML e-mail?
It's a beautiful e-mail with graphics - just like the ones that you receive from Amazon.com, HomeDepot.com, and other retailers.
What is customizable about it?
Absolutely everything! You can include your images from Instaprints... you can include your headshot... you can include links to other websites... you can include images from other websites... and more! Best of all, you don't need any HTML experience in order to put together a beautiful e-mail.
Who can I e-mail it to?
You can upload up to 10,000 e-mail addresses to FineArtAmerica.com and then e-mail all of them directly from our site in a matter of seconds. Each person on your list will receive a personalized e-mail (i.e. not a bulk carbon copy), and each e-mail is sent from your personal e-mail address (e.g. myaddress@hotmail.com) - yes, we can really do that!
Advertise your upcoming events and press releases in our weekly newsletter. Instaprints has developed a unique algorithm which allows the newsletter to automatically detect the location of the e-mail recipient and then instantly tailor the content of the newsletter to that location (e.g. Chicago).
Each member may post an unlimited number of upcoming events. Examples of events are: shows that you are participating in... art fairs that you are attending... an upcoming gallery exhibit... etc.
Put your marketing campaign on auto-pilot with the FaceBook application from Instaprints! With a few simple clicks, you can enable our FaceBook application, and then each time you upload an image to FineArtAmerica.com, we'll automatically post an announcement for you on your FaceBook wall!
There is simply no easier way to keep your friends, family, art collectors, and colleagues up-to-date regarding your recent activity on FAA.
Just imagine - each time your upload a new release to FAA... all of your FaceBook friends will know about it, instantly! This is a very powerful, non-intrusive form of marketing. FaceBook users are accustomed to seeing frequent updates from their friends and family. That's why they're on the site in the first place!
For those artists who don't enjoy the commercial side of the art business (i.e. marketing and promotion), this feature takes care of it for you! Just upload your artwork to FAA, and we'll let all of your friends and family know about it!
Have you ever wanted to sell your artwork through your Facebook profile or fan page? Now you can!
With a few simple clicks, you can add a full-featured FAA shopping cart directly to your personal page and/or fan page. Your Facebook friends and fans can then browse through all of your artwork without ever leaving Facebook!
Examples:
Mandy Wiltse's Fan Page Shopping Cart
Ken Power's Fan Page Shopping Cart
Melissa McDole's Fan Page Shopping Cart
Your shopping cart allows your friends and fans to browse through your images by keywords, galleries, medium, and more. All of your prices are clearly marked throughout the shopping system, and if a visitor is interested in making a purchase, it only takes a few simple clicks!
Have you ever been at an art fair and wished that you could hand an ordering catalog to a prospective buyer? Something that shows all of your available artwork, sizes, prices, and ordering information... now you can!
On each artwork page on FAA, there is a link underneath the main image that says PDF.
Just click on the PDF logo, and a menu will open up, instantly. This is an ordering menu for your prints and greeting cards.
Examples:
You can print the PDF documents using your home printer, take them to your local print shop for a more professional look, or just e-mail them directly to prospective buyers.
If you assemble a few individual PDFs together... you've got your own ordering catalog!
There is no better way to quickly and easily show your buyers what you have to offer.
Have you ever wanted to license your artwork for use on television? Now you can!
Instaprints has been selected to provide artwork for ABC's television series, Desperate Housewives, as part of a pilot program that's going to revolutionize the way that artwork is licensed for use on television.
Designing sets for popular TV shows such as Desperate Housewives is a high-energy, fast-paced business. With scripts often changing at the last minute, producers and set designers need to be able to design and build new sets in a matter of days.
The process of procuring artwork for these sets is particularly challenging because each piece of artwork that gets used as a prop or set decoration needs to be licensed from the original artist and cleared for use on television.
With limited time on their hands, it can be very difficult for TV producers to find high-quality artwork for their sets... locate the original artists... and then obtain signed licensing agreements from each artist.
In order to alleviate this problem and simultaneously open up a new sales channel for our artists, Instaprints has worked with producers at ABC Studios to develop a unique program that's going to revolutionize the way that artwork is licensed for use on television.
All premium members on FAA can join our "ABC Studios Licensing Program." By joining this program, you'll be offering your prints for sale to ABC's producers and set designers, and with a little luck, your prints could end up being used as set decorations or props in upcoming episodes of your favorite TV shows!
This program provides wonderful benefits to both parties. ABC's producers and set designers get to browse through images from artists who are willing to license their prints for use on television, and FAA's premium members get exposed to a new sales channel for selling and promoting their artwork!
For those artists who have always wanted to license their artwork but didn't know how to get started... what better way to start than with ABC Studios! To learn more about the ABC Studios Licensing Program, please click here.
Embed our shopping cart system into your own website and sell prints directly from your site! This allows you to keep your visitors focused on YOUR artwork on YOUR website!
This is one of the most exciting features for premium members. It requires absolutely no technical expertise to setup and can be fully functional on your website in less than one minute. To read more, click here.
Allow visitors to view full-resolution previews of your artwork in order to help them make buying decisions. Instaprints's unique preview algorithm allows visitors to see the finest details of your images while still protecting the original files from theft.
This is an optional feature which you can turn ON and OFF on an image by image basis.
Each member may post an unlimited number of press releases. Examples of press releases are: new artwork announcements... new webpage announcements... new award announcements... etc. Each press release that you post will be listed on your profile page, featured on our press release page, and included in our monthly newsletter.
Each member may post an unlimited number of blogs. Each blog is automatically included on our blogs page and submitted to Google's blog search.
Each print that you offer for sale is via our print on demand program is automatically submitted to Google Products on a weekly basis. This ensures that your prints are always available for purchase through that service and, thanks to our search engine optimization, that your prints always appear near the top of the search results!
Features
Feature Descriptions
Free Membership
Premium ($30 / Year)